Perspecta 28 – The Yale Architectural Journal ′Architects, Process & Inspiration – A Collection of Essays′ (Paper): No. 28 - Softcover

Joyce, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262661020 ISBN 13: 9780262661027

Publisher: MIT Press, 1997

Synopsis

"Architects, Process and Inspiration: A Collection of Essays" Founded in the early 1950s, Perspecta is the oldest and most distinguished of the student-edited architectural journals that have flourished in this country for decades. The focus of Perspecta 28 is the architect's persona. The essays concentrate on the role that personal vision plays in the process of perceiving, transforming, and building a world outside of oneself. The idea is that design process is a personal activity that grows out of an individuals education and experiences."Can you recognize the personal in a mans work?" asks Louis Kahn in the previously unpublished lecture that opens the issue. The following essays, in which contributors search for clues to Kahns "personal", take the form of discrete installations. The final form of each piece grew from its particular written and visual message, revealing the "personal" in the authors work. Jean Nouvel's nihilistic lecture, Aldo Rossi's anachronistic cartoons, W. G. Clarke's quiet travelogue through the South's backwoods: each installation is an evocative interweaving of message and medium. The essays share a belief in the power of personal vision and human energy, which cannot be found by analytic means alone.Contributors include Gunter Behnisch, Deborah Berke, Denise Scott Brown, Thomas Burton, W. G. Clark, Margaret Helfand, Louis Kahn, John Keenen, Thomas Leeser, Jean Nouvel, John Patkau, Patricia Patkau, Terence Riley, Aldo Rossi, Adele Santos, and Robert Venturi.

About this title

From the Back Cover

The essays in this book are presented as a collection of discrete installations. The final form of each contributor's essay grew, quite naturally, from its particular written and visual message-and it was the 'installation' or act of locating this message, exploring how we read and see within the silent structure of the page, that began to note, or reveal, the 'personal' in each contributors work.

Synopsis

In this edition of "Perspecta" the essays concentrate on the role that personal vision plays in the process of transforming and building a world outside of oneself. The essays consider the idea that design process is a personal activity that grows out of an individual's education and experience.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262661020
• ISBN 13: 9780262661027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226